The Normandy Village Shop & Cafe project has picked up speed, with goals having been met and progress accelerating towards new ones.
The Management Committee have been busy, heading up work groups and reaching out to the community.
Our website is now being refreshed and new information will start to appear.
We invite you to explore the different pages, discover what is happening and where we are with the project, every step we take is working towards opening the Normandy Community Shop & Cafe.
On our home page you will see snippets of information, you can download our first Newsletter for a quick overview, check out the noticeboard page. We may not have our shop yet, but we have started a village shop Noticeboard already!
Normandy Picnic on the Green Saturday 21 August 3pm – 7pm Come along with your picnic, blankets, chairs, family and friends. The Parish Council and Normandy Shop & Cafe invite you to come along with your picnics, chairs, blankets, family, friends and neighbours. A Pimm’s tent, cake sale, Parisian…
July 2021 Newsletter We’ve just launched our Newsletter. Click on the image below to open it. We have just launched the first edition of our newsletter. In this issue you will find: Your opportunity to help your community Update on the build What’s On Noticeboard We hope you enjoy reading it. Please let us know…
We’ve submitted our proposal to YourFund Yes it’s in! The Management Committee have worked nonstop to submit the initial proposal through the YourFund portal. It took a lot of writing and collating numerous documents that need to accompany the proposal. A crucial element was to show the community support and we were inundated with comments…
Our first Annual General Meeting Taking place 13 July 2021 at 7.00pm Our Community Benefit Society has been up and running for over a year now, so we will be holding our first Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 13th July at 7:00pm. If you are a shareholder, you would have received notification of the AGM…
Work taking place over the summer We are currently looking at what produce and services will be available in our shop. We intend to cater for a wide customer base, with everyday essentials at everyday affordable prices and those extra things that will bring a little joy to your weekly shop. As we are looking…
What’s happening on Friday mornings? The Friday morning market which we set up is still going to be running into the Autumn. We’ve had great feedback and are working on how we can bring these produces into the shop. We’d like to thank the Parish Council for permitting us to set up the market at…
The Normandy Community Shop & Cafe will be purpose-built, owned by our community, managed by our community, for the benefit of our community. It will be a fresh, attractive, and environmentally friendly focal point for the village.
Our aim is to sell local produce alongside everyday items to cater for household day to day needs and the odd treat! As well as providing a community meeting place, the shop and cafe will welcome and encourage other visitors to the village, who typically include running and walking groups, cyclists and dog walkers.
Community shops differ from normal retail shops in that they are owned by the community, run by the community and for the benefit of the community. That means that, rather than aiming to make profit for a retail organisation, they run to keep the store and cafe open and to pass on any additional profit to support other projects for the community. So, when you invest in a community shop, and use the shop and cafe, you are not only keeping the business going but you’re helping yourselves and your neighbours in supporting valuable local facilities.
As with many community shops and pubs, we are members of the Plunkett Foundation, who have been working with rural communities since 1919, and who have helped in establishing many of the community shops that exist today in the UK.
You can find out more about them on the Plunkett Foundation website www.plunkett.com
We have visited many shops and take our ideas to help develop our plans from many. Here are a couple of well established shops in Surrey.
